Dead Youth, or, The Leaks

COMPANY OR GROUP: The Runaways Lab Theatre SHOW: Dead Youth, or, The Leaks by Joyelle McSweeney

DIRECTOR: Logan Berry

Run Dates: Spring and Fall 2017 Run Location: High Concept Labs in Chicago, IL and Notre Dame University Role: Antoine de St. Exupery

Dead Youth was an absolute delight to work on. In Spring 2017 Logan Berry secured a residency with High Concept Labs in Chicago Illinois where we workshopped the show for a month and did a two weekend run. It was short but oh so sweet. I was the producer on the show as well as an actor/collaborator. This show featured many amazing rehearsal components including a Butoh workshop with Sara Zalek to help us ground down and into the earth as dead characters. The talented creative team on this show took it to new heights and I am proud to have helped produce such a comprehensive and experimental interpretation of McSweeney’s moving text about the Anthropocene and controversial pirate Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse.

Most of the high resolution photos below are by LIfan Li.

We took the show on a brief tour to Notre Dame in the Fall in order to do performances for the students and staff in the English Department, of which the author was a resident professor. This was a total blast and I would love to tour with a show again.